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Old Feb 4th 2008, 4:36 pm
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Default Shock at racist Spanish!!

OK, so not all of them, and it was just to draw you all in.......................but, it did happen in Spain and it was racism, so its not as if I made it up.................



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7225523.stm


It would appear that the Spanish Alonso fans are still a little smarting from last years antics.


what's your take on it?
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Old Feb 4th 2008, 4:46 pm
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Our Spanish friends feel they were robbed.

Doubtless were Alonso English and Hamilton Spanish the gutter press would be whipping up anti european sentiments with it like crazy.
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Old Feb 4th 2008, 5:09 pm
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Originally Posted by bil
Our Spanish friends feel they were robbed.

Doubtless were Alonso English and Hamilton Spanish the gutter press would be whipping up anti european sentiments with it like crazy.
so does that make it OK?


I'm confused.
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
so does that make it OK?............
It probably does if you're Spanish.
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Originally Posted by leighbloke
It probably does if you're Spanish.
That's OK then..........
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No, of course it doesn't make it right, it just means that it pays to careful before you throw the first stone.
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Its always been the same .... remember the english footballers that got the same treatment when they played here
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Originally Posted by Mitzyboy
Its always been the same .... remember the english footballers that got the same treatment when they played here
They've just had Rio Ferdinand on the news talking about just that. There have been calls for Spain to lose it's Grand Prix.
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Originally Posted by Ragomuffin
They've just had Rio Ferdinand on the news talking about just that. There have been calls for Spain to lose it's Grand Prix.
I dont think thats fair ......... especially as Valencia is not far away and I want to go
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
That's OK then..........
It is OK, until a country is fair to it's own people WTF should it give a toss about those from another?

Infact why should it care at all if it's not in it's own interest.
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Originally Posted by Ragomuffin
............... There have been calls for Spain to lose it's Grand Prix.
I'm sure they will if someone offers little Ern a few million more.
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Default oooh the shame!

i am very proud to be spanish... apart from today

did you see those illiterate ignorant racist thugs abusing Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona?:curse:
they painted thieir faces black and proceeded to shout racial abuse... the shame! :curse::curse:

Lock them all up i say.
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Default Re: oooh the shame!

Originally Posted by featherbum
i am very proud to be spanish... apart from today

did you see those illiterate ignorant racist thugs abusing Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona?:curse:
they painted thieir faces black and proceeded to shout racial abuse... the shame! :curse::curse:

Lock them all up i say.
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Originally Posted by jdr
RM has got a thread on it so I will merge you onto his. ;-))
ooops silly me i didnt see it! thanks.
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Default Re: oooh the shame!

I also watched the people dressed up as Hamilton’s family in the news, and I cannot see how it can be offensive to dressed up as black people. Their message was something like: “Even if we are Hamilton’s family, we have t-shirts supporting Alonso, because we like him better!”. They could have been smarter, and the disguises weren’t too good either, but in this particular case (not in all the other) I don’t see the scandal.
I just remembered a Southpark episode where the town becomes polarised over the issue of their flag, which depicts several white men hanging a black one. The adults are shocked that the children don’t want to change it, but in the end they realise that the children had not noticed that the colour of their skin was different. I have to ask again: what’s racist about disguising as a black person? And even if it was not Carnival, it would be quite normal for people to be disguised in such an event, just like some people go to football stadiums.
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